{"id":196875,"date":"2024-10-01T15:23:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T20:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/researchers-observe-hidden-deformations-in-complex-light-fields"},"modified":"2024-10-01T15:23:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T20:23:01","slug":"researchers-observe-hidden-deformations-in-complex-light-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/researchers-observe-hidden-deformations-in-complex-light-fields","title":{"rendered":"Researchers observe hidden deformations in complex light fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-observe-hidden-deformations-in-complex-light-fields3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have recently observed a fascinating effect in the behavior of twisted light when it reflects off surfaces.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Everyday experience tells us that light reflected from a perfectly flat mirror will give us the correct image without any deformation. Interestingly, this is not the case when the light field itself is structured in a complex way. Tiny deformations appear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have recently observed a fascinating effect in the behavior of twisted light when it reflects off surfaces. Everyday experience tells us that light reflected from a perfectly flat mirror will give us the correct image without any deformation. Interestingly, this is not the case when the light field itself is structured in a complex [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}